I've wandered much in the realm of fantasy: Pebbles and stones mistaken for precious jewels.
The boy, not echoing, only kicks small pebbles with his tiptoes, here and there.
I remembered how Kaka Homayoun's house in Jalalabad had had a water well like that--the twins, Fazila and Karima, and I used to drop pebbles in it, listen for the plink.
Warble me now for joy of lilac-time, (returning in reminiscence,) Sort me O tongue and lips for Nature's sake, souvenirs of earliest summer, Gather the welcome signs, (as children with pebbles or stringing shells,) Put in April and May, the hylas croaking in the ponds, the elastic air, Bees, butterflies, the sparrow with its simple notes, Blue bird and darting swallow, nor forget the high-hole flashing his golden wings, The
Life's road is nothing if not strewn with pebbles, potholes, unexpected surprises, both happy and not-so-happy ones.
According to legend, the famous Blang dish, Fish Soup with Pebbles, was created by some Blang fishermen in the wild.
Ostriches swallow sand and pebbles to help grind up food in their stomachs.
We hurled pebbles at their goats.
There were many pretty pebbles along the coast .
I am passing sometimes pines and oaks, which ten men could not girdle, I am treading pebbles barefoot in swift-running water -- Its ripples purify my ear, while a soft wind blows my garments.
And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means, And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold, And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams.
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
Buried under the sand or pebbles can be sharp rocks, broken glass, pieces of broken shell or other hard items that can cut your feet or ankles.
Pearl-fishers dive for pearls, Merchants sail in their ships, While children gather pebbles And scatter them again.
" Without taking a rest, the brave little bird kept carrying twigs and pebbles from the mountain to the East China Sea.
For my toddler, it's nothing less than a parade of flowers, fire trucks, pebbles, and friendly folk.
The tailor felt in his pockets, and reached him a handful, they were, however, not nuts, but pebbles.
The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies.
These presents flew like pebbles across the sea-water.
The boy had many sources of pleasure and enjoyment; the coast for miles and miles was full of playthings, for it was a mosaic of pebbles, some red as coral or yellow as amber, and others again white and rounded like birds' eggs and smoothed and prepared by the sea.
